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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our business development discussions took longer than planned. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. So, I provide B2B services to B2Bs.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. These markets are not yet well developed and remain asymmetric. It is intentional.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I work with them to develop and market profitable products and services that turn hunger and poverty into sufficiency, war into peace, and catastrophic climate change into planetary balance. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. So why Market Expertise?

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were immediately thrust into a globally competitive market for B2B collaboration tools.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.